Aim? - It contemplated providing 25 kg. of
foodgrains per month at highly subsidized rates of Rs. 2 per kg. for wheat and
Rs. 3 per kg. for rice to each Antodaya family. The total number of families to
be covered under this scheme was placed at one crore. It contemplated providing
25 kg. of foodgrains per month at highly subsidized rates of Rs. 2 per kg. for
wheat and Rs. 3 per kg. for rice to each Antodaya family. The total number of
families to be covered under this scheme was placed at one crore.

2) Balika Samriddhi Yojana

When launched? - August 15, 1997

Aim? - To change negative family and
community attitudes towards the girl child at birth and towards her mother, To
improve enrolment and retention of girl children in schools, To raise the age
at marriage of girls, To assist the girl to undertake income generating
activities.

Note: During 1999-2000, Govt. of India
recast the scheme and the benefits and means of delivery have been redesigned
to ensure that financial benefits accrue to the girl child. Balika Samridhi
Yojna is being implemented in both rural and urban areas.

3) Bharat Nirman

When launched? - May 16, 2005 by the then
Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh as part of successful completion of one year of
the UPA government.

Aim? - Ambitious scheme of Rs 175 crore for
rural infrastructure development. There were namely six areas under Bharat
Nirman viz. - irrigation, road development, water supply, housing, rural
electrification and rural telecom connectivity.Villages with a population of
1,000 (500 in tribal areas) would be connected with a road.. Construction of 60
lakh additional houses for the homeless rural poor.. An additional 1 crore
hectare area in the rural areas would be brought under irrigation,. An
additional 74,000 habitations would be provided with drinking water.

5) Indira Awaas Yojana

When launched? - 1985

Aim? - Provides financial assistance to
rural poor for constructing their houses themselves. Under the scheme,
financial assistance worth Rs.70,000/- in plain areas and Rs.75,000/- in
difficult areas (high land area) is provided for construction of houses. The
houses are allotted in the name of the woman or jointly between husband and
wife.

Note: Started in 1985 as part of the Rural
Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP), Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) was
subsumed in Jawahar rojgar Yojana (JRY) in 1989 and has been operating as an
independent scheme since 1996.

6) Integrated Child Development Scheme

When launched? - 1975

Aim? -
Provides food, preschool education, and primary healthcare to children
under 6 years of age and their mothers. These services are provided from
Anganwadi centres established mainly in rural areas and staffed with frontline
workers.

Aim? - The main objective of the yojana was
additional gainful employment for the unemployed and under-employed persons in
rural areas.

Important: Since April 1, 1999 this Yojna
was replaced by Jawahar Gram samridhi Yojna. Later from September 25, 2001,
Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojna was merged with Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojna.

8) Kudumbasree

When launched? - May 17, 1998 by the then
Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee in Malappuram.

Note: Kudumbashree, a female-oriented,
community-based, poverty reduction project of Government of Kerala.

Aim? - Empowerment of women, through
forming self-help groups and encouraging their entrepreneurial or other wide
range of activities. The purpose of the mission is to ensure that the women
should no longer remain as passive recipients of public assistance, but active
leaders in women-involved development initiatives.

9) Mahila Samriddhi Yojana

When launched? - 2nd October, 1993

Aim? - Empowering rural women through
development of thrift habit and building confidence and self-reliance. Under
the scheme any adult rural woman could open the MSY account in the post office
with a minimum deposit of Rs 4/- or in multiples of Rs.4/- subject to a maximum
of Rs.300/-.

10) National Food for Work Programme

When launched? - 14 November 2004

Aim? - Launched in 150 of the most backward
districts of India with the objective of generating supplementary wage
employment. The programme is open to all rural poor who are prepared to do
manual, unskilled labour. It is implemented as a centrally-sponsored scheme.

Important: This program was merged with the
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in February 2006.

Please note: This article has been prepared based on the online
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